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Everyone’s saying that Intel‘s purchase of McAfee for $7.7 billion makes no sense and that it says all sorts of things about the vote of confidence (or lack thereof) placed in Microsoft and its products.

These people are idiots. Not only are Intel geniuses and their recent acquisition spree is an exciting development for the entire IT industry (and mobile in particular), but one of the biggest winners of Intel’s new strategy is Microsoft. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that Intel’s new strategy that they are executing might very well be the piece of history that people look back on in ten years and say was what defined computing this decade and put Microsoft back in the game. Seriously.

Stay with me on this one.